NHS warned of exodus of junior doctor
Media reports say an unprecedented number of National Health Service physicians have registered for certificate allowing them to work overseas.
According to the reports, the General Medical Council has received 1,644 requests for certificates of current professional status (CCPS) – required to work abroad – in just three days last week. Usually, the regulator receives 20-25 a day.
This has sounded the alarm for the government as it may face disaster in the health sector.
The surge in applications began last week after the Department of Health said it would impose the contract on England’s 53 thousand junior doctors. The contract will cut the doctors' pay by up to 40%, forcing them to work more antisocial shifts.
The British Medical Association’s (BMA) junior doctors committee said the GMC figures were proof of the government’s folly.
Kitty Mohan, co-chair of the committee, said: “These figures should serve as a serious wakeup call to the government. There has been an outpouring of anger over plans to impose a new contact and there is a real risk that junior doctors will speak with their feet. To lose a large swath of doctors in the early stages of their careers would be disaster for the NHS.”
There were 4,925 CCPS applications made last year. Last week’s spike takes this year’s number to 4,500, on course to beat the previous record of 5,163, recorded in 2012, media reported.
A DoH spokesman said: “These figures are not emigration data and do not reflect the number of doctors planning to leave the UK. We suspect this sudden spike in CCPS applications is prompted by the doctors’ trade union, which is deliberately misrepresenting our contract proposals. NHS staff are our greatest asset.”
London-based analyst Rodney Shakespeare says the government’s health policies have created tensions in the sector putting unnecessary pressure on doctors.
He also noted that the exodus of young doctors is just one of the main negative consequences of government’s health policies. Shakespeare went on warning of many other social impacts of the exodus on British society.
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